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letters SSSS, and of the gardens by the lines inclosing GGGG. The old 

 French well [W] pointed out to visitors is probably not, though possibly it 

 may be, the well shown on the plan of the settlement. It is not far from 

 the correct position, but on the other hand it is extremely shallow, though 

 it ina\' have Viccii deopcr when the island was wooded. 

 B. — The Acadian Settlements. ^\5 to the .sites of these we have six Hnes of 

 evidence, the narrative of Church, place-names, tradition, a published map 

 of 17o3 by Southack, the Morris Report of 1765, and a Ms. map of 170() by 

 David Owen (No. 10), which marks Frciuh settlements about Pas.sama- 

 quodtly Bay. 



There are no records of any settlers in this region until 1G84, when a 

 Seigniory was granted at Pa.ssamaquoddy to Sieur St. Aubin, and later others 

 were granted, all of wliich will presently be mentioned. The census of 1686 

 gave two settlers with their families at St. Croix ; that of 1089 gave four jiien, 

 four women and thirteen children, while another in 1700 gave sixteen per- 

 sons. When Church made his raid in 1704, the settlers appear to have been 

 more numerous, but after that raid they seem to have disappeared from 

 the region, for they are heard of no more. 



In Church's narrative of his expedition to this region in 1704, he tells 

 of coming up the west passage of Passamaquoddy and to an island where lie 

 found a French house, and captured one Lotriel and his family. This was 

 plainly enough on Indian Island, which on early plans and in early records 

 is called Latrelle and other forms of what is known to be properly La 

 Treille, and Owen's map places a settlement at the southern end of the 

 island.' Later Church proceeded up the bay to a place, apparently the 

 present Pleasant Point, (or possibly St. Andrews) where other houses, or 

 rather, huts, were found, in one of which lived a Monsieur Gourdan, 

 probably the Sieur St. Aubin. Again, at the head of the river near the 

 falls, probably at the cove, St. Stephen, lived one Sharkee, properly Chartier. 

 These are the only French houses of which we have record in documents. 

 Since, however, Jean Meusnier had a grant on the ISIagaguadavic he probably 

 lived there, though we have no hint as to exactly where. Turning next to 

 the Southack map of 1733, reproduced and discussed in the preceding memoir 

 of this series, (p. 307), in which Passamaquoddy River represents the passage 

 between Deer Island and Maine, and St. Croix River represents Letite 

 pa.ssage ; "French Inhabitants" are placed apparently on the lower end of 

 Deer Island, and on the mainland opposite. The upper of the latter settle- 

 ments is no doubt the same as that on Chebaiaok (i.e. Pleasant Point), of 

 (Jwen's map, and the lower that on ^loose Id. on Owen's map, but I know 

 nothing of those on Deer Island. Southack also places French houses on 

 Campobello near what is plainly Harbor Delute, as al«o does Owen on his map. 

 Tradition points to certain ci-llaiN on the peninsula between Curry's Cove 

 and Otter Cove as French, and it was probably here the French houses really 

 stood, a view sustained by Owen's map. Church in his expetlition sent 

 a party to this island to search for the French. On the peninsula at the 

 entrance to Harbor Delute, westward oi Curry's Cove, DesBarres picture of 

 Campobello, of 1777, shows a sort of arch ruin, which must have belonged to 

 a building of some importance, and possibly here was another French house. 

 Rameau states that St. Aubin's residence at Passamaquoddy was a palisaded 

 dwelling or sort of fort, and ])ossibly this ruin is the remnant of his 



' This cxpcditiou of Church lias bfcn fully trejited iu the Courior Series, XXXI-XXXHI. 



